Santa Ana “Neighborhood Hero” Gordon compares Latinos to ignorant kids

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• See...although you make some concrete points here, you also turned personally nasty again. That is just wrong. And you made some cracks at unions and politics. This was just nasty and uncalled for - the better man could have either written this differently, or just kept his mouth shut. You earn no points in heaven for being a jerk, regardless of their politics or frailities.

  • ocgrrl,

    I could say the same for each of your comments. I belong to a union by the way, do you?

    And what could be nastier than comparing Latino residents and our accomplished Council Members to kids who don't know enough to care for themselves?

    I noticed you gave Gordon a free pass. Figures.

    If this blog so offends you I recommend you read something else.

• That's not very nice of you to pick on little Tommy. The little fellas had a rough going living in his mommy and daddy's house his whole life.

• It looks like the LAUSD board needs to watch what its employees eat as well. Have you seen that gut on Gordo?

• I did not see Mr. Gordon use the words "ignorant" or "Latino" in his comment. Nowhere in your stories on Chivas do you ever address how the financially strapped city will pay for Chivas. Mr.Gordon did not interject race into this issue. You did. Criticimofthe council is just that: criticism. There is no reference to race. And why is Mr. Gordon's place of employment an issue

• I notice that Gordon and his anonymous allies would rather smear people than explain what he meant by his comment posted on the Voice of OC. Clearly he was making the analogy that he and those opposing Chivas USA are "adults" and those supporting the move "children".

  While he did not specifically say that it is easy to read between the lines and understand the analogy. He feels that he is far wiser to make decisions for our city than are the majority of the residents.

  Perhaps rather than attacking people he and his friends would like to defend his comment, if they can.

• Reading,

  Gordon's analogy is very clear. Like most of the Usual Suspects he thinks he is smarter than the other Santa Ana residents, except that he isn't.

  To make things worse he refuses to explain his comment, opting instead to attack us.

  Explain yourself Gordon!

• Gordon one of your best friends Zorro?
  You are not really good in picking your friends and that includes the current one too.

• Hee Hee Hee! Aye that Tommy Boy aka Gordo is at it again. He insults Latinos with college degrees because they have something he doesn't. Not only a college degree but it seems a high school diploma too.

  Geez, no wonder LAUSD is in such trouble. They scrape the bottom of the barrel to hire an inspector with only a G.E.D. I searched my sister's yearbooks from '79 to '82 and there is no Thomas Gordon that attended Saddleback.

  Does anyone know where Gordo went to high school?

  Beep Beep

• Gordon is getting an award tonight for his service to the community. I didn't see Admin or Sean Mill listed among the previous award winners. Thomas is not a racist. The comments he made did not use the words Mexican or Latino. You guys are just jealous that he makes a positive difference in the community and the only thing you two bring to the table is envy and hate. If you want to read in between the lines, Gordon is far more successfuL in his life than either Mill or Admin. I dare you to post this without editing it admin....

  • Jealousy,

    I am not going to quibble about Gordon's accomplishments - whatever they are. Whether or not he used the words you referenced, his analogy was quite clear. That he has chosen to go on the attack instead of telling us why he wrote what he wrote speaks for itself.

• I am not giving Gordon a free pass. His politics are abhorrent and nasty. I am not going to express my opinion on the Chivas team because I have not researched it enough to formulate an informed opinion one way or another, but I agree his paternalistic attitude is wrong and is fundamentally flawed. He does think he knows better.

  But Admin, so do you. You are defending your position with the very same logic that he is using. And you are doing so in a way that attacks the person rather than the philosophy. You can attack his opinion in a way that is not a personal attack: "He clearly looks down on the schoolkids whose parents pay his ridiculous union salary", and "He ought to be getting a Turkey award! ". Those comments are not substantive; they are just wrong.

  • ocgrrl,

    No they are not. Read what he wrote. He clearly intimated that the people in our city who support the Chivas move are too stupid to make their own choices, like kids who need adults to pick their beverages. And then he did the same thing to our accomplished City Council member.

    And I know for a fact that he is overpaid. The LAUSD could hire asbestos inspectors with equivalent experience at half the cost, with no pension costs to boot. I worked in that industry for several years.

    As for the Chivas team I did go see a game to get a feel for the environment. Gordon did not. But that did not stop him from bleating about trash and diapers...

    All of the Usual Suspects deserve Turkey awards.